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KENAF
(Hibiscus cannabinus L.), an annual herbaceous plant of the Malvaceae family, yielding a soft fiber from the stem bark. Its fiber is used primarily for making gunnysacks and burlap. The first gunny mill (guni bāfi) in Persia was established in 1933 in Rašt by the private sector. This mill was shut down in 1961 and reopened in 1966 under government ownership.
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ZOROASTER vi. AS PERCEIVED BY LATER ZOROASTRIANS
This entry treats the development of the concept and image of Zoroaster among the Zoroastrians of Persia and India after the Islamic conquest (10th century onwards).
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IRANICA'S NEW WEBSITE!
We hope you enjoy the new features and updated presentation of Encyclopædia Iranica online. We are especially happy to be able to offer, at long last, a full-text search across the corpus of entries. But work continues at this new site and we ask for your patience as we strive to put all the pieces in place. In the meantime, we invite you to peruse our most recently published entries, posted in March 2010. The below report provides titles, authors and summaries of these entries.
In Focus
The extensive historical relations between Iran and India have been covered in a series of survey articles on selected areas of interaction and mutual influence between the two culture areas under the rubric of INDIA; numerous other articles have also treated the various aspects of Iran-India relations, ranging from consideration of the fragmentary information available for the pre-Islamic period to an overview of the enormous body of history, poetry, and other literature produced in India in the Persian language.